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Category: Working with Attorneys
Finding, managing, and working effectively with patent attorneys
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Your Inventor Loves Your Patent Attorney. That Is the Problem.
The bond that makes the disclosure meeting work is the same bond that makes quality invisible.
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Your Patent Attorney Makes More Money When the Patent Application Is Bad
The worse the initial filing, the more they bill to fix it. And nobody told you that up front.
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Your CTO Should Never Own Your Patent Strategy
When the CTO owns IP, you get more patents, not better patents. And that is the opposite of what matters.
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Just Do Your Job
Your patent attorney is a skilled professional. They spent years learning patent law. They passed the patent bar. They have written hundreds of applications and prosecuted thousands of…
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Why Patent Competence Is a C-Suite Responsibility
There’s a simple test for whether a patent actually matters:
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Are Patents Still Relevant in the Age of AI?
Not slowly. Not incrementally. It’s collapsing fast enough that entire assumptions about startups, competition, and defensibility no longer hold.
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Stolen Valor: How Sleazy Patent Attorneys Abuse Inventorship
For an innovator, being named as an inventor on a patent is the crowning achievement of a career.
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AI-Assisted Patent Search Tools Exacerbate Inventor Biases
Inventors and entrepreneurs might love the idea of using an AI‑powered search tool to check “Did I do something new?” fast and cheap. It sounds smart. It sounds…
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Your Patent Attorney Is NOT Giving Business Advice
Most inventors think that hiring a patent attorney[1] means they’re protected. That’s a mistake.
Thirty minutes. Chief IP Officer on retainer — and the capital option behind it.
If what you need is something else, we’ll tell you on the same call.